2009/12/11 Lubos Lunak
Even if you look at your http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/Developer-News , there is one item which clearly does not belong there (who with their developer hat on cares about some BitTorrent client?) and one which is unsure
I added that. Does it actually make sense to do only a partial list of removed packages, on grounds that "developer" don't care about some entries? If it does, then at minimum a link to the real complete list of dropped packages is required. How would you produce decent releases notes later if such changes aren't noted? What about if some other developer does care about user friendliness and reducing support questions, and wants to point users to alternatives with something like 'cnf'. Failure to communicate, is exactly what causes questions to get punted to developer lists, because the technical savvy people who answer questions on lists and in forums, cannot find the answers.
I disagree with either RFC or plain ANNOUNCEMENT. Such changes are neither requests for comments nor just any announcement. If this is to work, then it is necessary to include as many people doing development as possible and the overhead of this should small. Imagine somebody taking care of a couple of their packages but not really caring that much about openSUSE as a whole, for whatever reason (even if that reason would be just too much work or limited time, I think many of us here know mail folders with hundreds of unread mails).
To be inclusive and encourage more developers you need to inform outside so they become interested, and help mail filters and decent mail clients to sort traffic relevancy. There's "search" to lookup stuff, you need it even if you read every single message, because most of them will be forgotten. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org